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AIRWHEEL COFFEE Company based in Winston-Salem, is bringing a fresh new version of roasted coffee to coffee-lovers. You’ll find Airwheel “popping up” at Bailey Park Stage Pop-up shop in the Innovation Quarter as well as local retailers.

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Looking towards today, we have found ourselves in a flurry of social media that permeates most of our waking lives, and artist TAHA HEYDARI explores this in his new exhibit...

11 In THE HERO, actor Sam Elliott enjoys one of the best roles of his career as Lee Hayden, the faded star of T.V. Westerns, now relegated to commercials voiceovers, a mostly-fruitless search for acting work and too much time getting drunk and stoned.

12 When people talk about the meltingpot culture of America, it’s usually a cute way of signaling that something has a pleasant mix or a curious combination of

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20 As a filmmaker, Michael Bay has never seemed particularly interested in coherency or linear thinking or anything else that carries an idea from Point A to Point B. With that in mind, here’s my own stream-of-consciousness look at Bay’s latest bray, TRANSFORMERS: THE LAST KNIGHT. 24 Like he’s done for his entire career, the High Point University PRESIDENT decided to do something about it—something big. He pledged to raise $38 million for additional developments around the stadium like a children’s museum, event center, educational cinema and a park.

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Katie Culler - State & Main

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Being born into a furniture family in High Point, it was natural for owner of State & Main Vintage and Eclectic Katie Culler to open up her own vintage, highend furniture consignment store in 2014.

“Sure, it is my business but I wouldn’t be able to do it without my mom and dad and brothers they are a huge help,” Culler said.

The original location was on Uwharrie Road and was called Warehouse on Uwharrie. However, Culler said after noticing the slower traffic at that location, so she decided to move to the corner of State and Main in High Point, which would become the meaning behind the store’s name.

“The main point for me is to just get the word out,” Culler said. “We sat over there [on Uwharrie Road] for years and had a tough time getting customers.

Moving here has been like night and day, we have really boosted sales. We are not new, we have been around!”

Culler used to live in Savannah, Georgia, and had owned a consignment shop there doing basically the same thing, except she said sold more art pieces.

“I was supporting artists in Savannah and I knew that I was not going to be able to do that here in High Point and Greensboro,” Culler said.

Contrary to popular belief, Culler said there aren’t many shops like her’s in the High Point area. She said there are tons of furniture stores, but not many high-

end furniture consignment stores.

“I feel like with here, it is like you are walking into somebody’s home,” Cullers said. “When you walk into the door you are looking into someone’s past and that to me is what I am looking for and would want.’

Culler said her favorite pieces and the ones she likes to see pass through her store are smaller items, accessories and paintings.

“It is always fun to see what people have,” Culler said. “The main draw for me is the phone call that says: ‘Come and see what I have,’ and going out to their house to see what they got,and knowing that I can turn around and help them sell it, that is a lot of fun.”

Culler said she used to advertise so that people would call her with tips for some pieces that she could help sell, but now she doesn’t really have to advertise anymore because people already call her up to consign their items.

In the near future, Culler hopes to move to a bigger space within the next year because she said State & Main has outgrown the space she is in. Culler said the best thing about State & Main is that “you never know what you’ll might find.”

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Air-roasted coffee is trending up in the Triad

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irWheel Coffee Company based in Winston-Salem, is bringing a fresh new version of roasted coffee to coffeelovers. You’ll find Airwheel “popping up” at Bailey Park Kristi Maier Stage Pop-up shop @triadfoodie in the Innovation Quarter as well as local retailers.

Contributor AirWheel launched earlier this year, but its wheels have been spinning for much longer than the first half of 2017. I met founder Nick Broome, several years ago and sitting around my breakfast table is where we first learned of his emerging enterprise of air-roasting coffee and his coffee extract.

“It has been a hobby of mine for a long time,” Broome said.

He learned about air-roasting coffee from Macleod Fitzgerald after Fitzgerald brought his prized fluid-bed roaster from Oregon. Broome and Fitzgerald’s grandson, Shane Aaron, then sucked up as much knowledge as they could. There’s a bit of a family tree thing happening here; today, Fitzgerald’s son, Neal Pruett, who is Shane’s father, operates Magic Beans, roasts AirWheel’s coffee and also serves some local establishments. You’ll also find them at the Winston-Salem Fairgrounds Farmers Market.

So how is air-roasting different than a traditional roast?

“Roasting coffee is usually done in a drum, which uses a heat source,” he said.

“We use a fluid-bed roaster. We put in about 12 pounds of green coffee and air

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pressure blows the beans up and they roast by air.”

Think of it visually as a clothes dryer vs. hot air popcorn popper.

Only one percent of all the coffee in the world is air-roasted, Broome said.

“With air-roasting, you’re really able to dial in the degree of roast that you want,” he said. “Coffee is really precious and sensitive and if you go too far, it can bring out that burnt and bitter flavor. Air-roasting avoids burning the beans, which creates a smooth cup of coffee.”

They will also say that it avoids the jittery feeling that can also come with a traditional cup of coffee. Air-roasting aficionados and really, any coffee lover, will tell you that coffee should never taste bitter or burnt. It should also not leave you feeling like you have acid in your stomach and throat.

In addition to air-roasted coffee, AirWheel also offers its prized coffee extract,

which is what I first sampled several years ago when the company was but a twinkle in Broome’s eye.

“It’s really one of a kind,” Broome said.

“We take the fresh air-roasted coffee and we extract the essential oil from the coffee. It’s super bold and one ounce added

to seven ounces of hot filtered water creates the smoothest, boldest flavor you are looking for in coffee.”

This extract is not the same as a cold brew (which isn’t extract at all), Broome said, “It’s a true extract that works wonderfully in a number of recipes.”

Since dropping into its first retailer, Village Juice back in April, AirWheel has been adding other retailers on top its pop-ups, such as Colony Urban Farm Store, Wine Merchants Gourmet & Vin 205, Stella Brew and Wiseman Brewing. They’re also

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6:30 p.m. vs. Down East Wood Ducks found at 1703 Restaurant and Catering, and most recently The Humblebee Shoppe.

Brittany McGee, of The Humblebee Shoppe has only been open for a few days, but has been using AirWheel’s extract for baking.

“AirWheel’s extract is a bakers dream!”

McGee said. “I like to use it in my buttercreams to compliment the chocolate mocha cake I make for Willow’s. I also use it at the shop for ice coffee and it is so tasty. It’s super concentrated so a little goes a long way.”

AirWheel continues to add more restaurants and retailers each week.

Broome added, “We also have the AirWheel Coffee Lounge at Venture Cafe in Winston-Salem and we are the official coffee for Flow BMW’s Cars and Coffee events at Reynolda Village.”

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shelf…honeys, maple syrup, no dairy, only cashew milk, almond milk, hazelnut milk or oat milk,” he said. “We really take it to the next level with the drinks.”

Broome suggests their bourbon-infused honey with hazelnut milk and coffee or get your Irish on with an Irish Cream Liqueur infused with coffee and oat milk.

AirWheel goes that extra step in sustainability by repurposing wine bottles to seal and package its beans and extract.

Broome said he hopes that people will try air-roasted coffee and see the difference.

“A lot of people haven’t really had a really great, smooth cup of coffee the way it’s meant to be enjoyed,” he said. “It’s not just coffee, it should be an experience.” !

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Exploring the New Image Regime at SECCA A

rt has historically served a dual purpose, partly serving as a reflection of the period it comes from, it also acts as commentary on society at the time.

Looking towards today, we have found James Ross Kiefer ourselves in a flurry of social media that permeates most of Contributor our waking lives, and artist Taha Heydari explores this in his new exhibit at the South Eastern Center for Contemporary Art. Opening June 22 at SECCA, “Subliminal” is Heydari’s first solo exhibition. Hailing from Tehran, Heydari is a Baltimore based artist who in 2016 earned a M.F.A. in painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Comprised of 20 paintings, something unique about his work is many of the pieces within the exhibit are on incredibly large canvases. These larger canvases, which are very difficult for an artist to work with, give his paintings a rather immersive and looming scope.

“This is the biggest exhibition that I’ve ever had,” Heydari said. “Especially after graduation [and] two years working in school, seeing all those paintings together in one space gives me a very interesting perspective on what I’ve done the last two years.”

A main feature of Heydari’s work is the consistent square motif, or pixelization.

In his artist talk he mentions that this stemmed from watching T.V. in Tehran, as the Iranian government heavily censored broadcasts. At times this created a broken, pixelated display on the T.V. screen. He also sees his work as a bridge between historic

(Above) Cora Fisher and Taha Heydari (Top Right) The Museum, 2017 (At Right) The National Security Advisor, 2017 and modern media.

“In terms of what I see in the space and try to achieve is kind of condition” he said, “What it means to be today, 2017. What it means to be constantly being recorded, like right now, and recording like Instagram and Facebook. So you see a lot of digital pixelation, you see references to visual imagery and also past. I consider painting [a] very old medium, 40,000 years ago from the cave until now. So painting gives us this perspective to think about it what is the situation right now.”

A painting that immediately greets a gallery visitor is “On the Roof.” Probably the most abstracted and amalgamated piece within the exhibit, this work best displays Heydari’s talent. Using both pixelization and sweeping brushwork, “On the Roof” creates a distorted landscape that forces the viewer to constantly refocus and try dif-

ferent angles to find shape and narrative.

“The Museum” sits on the opposite of “On the Roof.” This work shows a selfawareness to the idea of being artwork in an exhibit.

Displaying a Geisha next to someone in a gimp suit, the art effaces the idea of fetishizing and appropriating culture for the pleasure and leisure of others. Here, Heydari blends his pixelization process from the ceiling and walls into the black tile floor, choosing juxtaposition by color rather than shape.

Cora Fisher curated “Subliminal” and said she thinks that the intersection of perception of digital, visual and cultural information will draw viewers’ interest in the exhibit.

“I think they’re going to see really dynamic and interesting canvases that they have to decode a little bit,” Fisher said.

“They have to spend some time kind of

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piecing together what’s there. Is there some kind of latent imagery there? But they make you want to do that. I think they seduce you into wanting to spend time, which is I would say in our attention economy, one of the edges that paintings really has is that it can really make you want to spend time with one image.”

Salem College student Dulce Rivera said she keeps returning to SECCA because she gets the best of both worlds.

“It’s not New York, it’s not a big city, but you’re able to get different types of art,” Rivera said. “SECCA is important because it’s contemporary art, I think that it’s a nice variation and a nice balance.”

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JAMES ROSS KIEFER is a senior at UNCG where he studies Music and Radio Broadcasting. He currently serves as Editor in Chief to the UNCG student newspaper, The Carolinian. A lifelong Greensboro native, James has a been an active member in the local music scene by laying in various alternative, folk and punk bands, as well as playing in the UNCG student ensembles.

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UNCSA graduate, filmmaker Brett Haley talks The Hero In The Hero, actor Sam Elliott enjoys one of the best roles of his career as Lee Hayden, the faded star of T.V. Westerns, now relegated to commercials voiceovers, a mostlyfruitless search for Mark Burger acting work and too much time getting Contributor drunk and stoned.

Long divorced from wife Valarie (Katharine Ross) and estranged from daughter Lucy (Krysten Ritter), Lee receives a dire medical diagnosis that forces him to re-examine his life and his priorities, which is further complicated by an unexpected relationship with Charlotte Dylan (Laura Prepon), a saucy stand-up comedienne who takes a shine to him.

The Hero is the third feature from editor/director Brett Haley, who cowrote the screenplay with Marc Basch. Haley, a 2005 graduate of the UNCSA School of Filmmaking in Winston-Salem, brought The Hero to the RiverRun International Film Festival in April, and the film received a Grand Jury prize nomination at the Sundance Film Festival. The Hero opens June 30 at Aperture Cinema for its regular theatrical engagement.

Haley made his feature debut with the award-winning 2010 comedy The New Year, which starred UNCSA School of Drama graduate Trieste Kelly Dunn, followed by the acclaimed comedy/drama I’ll See You in My Dreams, which he also cowrote with Basch and where he first worked with Elliott.

Haley jokes that he made The Hero just so he could spend more time with Elliott, yet there’s some truth to that. Having enjoyed his work over the years, Haley wanted to make a film in which the actor was unequivocally the star. It’s not so much that Sam Elliott is underrated or overlooked, but taken for granted. He makes it look easy.

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“When you mention Sam Elliott, people say ‘I love that guy!’ – and my goal was to make a film with him the central figure.

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Sam Elliott stars as one-time Western star Lee Hayden in Brett Haley’s comedy/drama The Hero.

Lee Marvin or Sterling Hayden, for whom the character is named, although there are similarities to them as well.

The voice. The presence. The sheer ease with which he plays a character. These are the components of the Sam Elliott screen persona.

“He’s just singular,” Haley said. “You can see it on screen. Not many actors have that kind of presence. He doesn’t have to do anything. He doesn’t have to say anything.

It’s just who he is. There’s no bullshit with him.”

Haley couldn’t be more pleased by the rave reviews Elliott has received.

“The Sam-renaissance is real – it’s happening!” Haley said.

Haley enjoyed delving into the Western milieu, a genre he has great regard and respect for.

“Very much,” he says. “I love the simplicity of the genre.”

Indeed, Haley and cinematographer Rob C. Givens, a fellow UNCSA graduate, paid homage to the genre with visual references to the works of Sergio Leone and Clint Eastwood.

When it comes to selecting a favorite Sam Elliott film, he can’t choose just one.

“Grandma, The Contender, I love The Big Lebowski, the classics: Tombstone, Roadhouse, Lifeguard,” Givens said. “He was terrific [on T.V.] in Justified, which was a great show.” (Elliott won the 2015 Critics’ Choice Television award for Best Guest Performer in a Drama Series for his performance in the series.)

Haley admits it wasn’t difficult to cast

Ross, who is married to Elliott in real life, especially as the role was written specifically for her. The rest of the cast quickly fell into place.

“The actors responded to the material, and also, just as much, the opportunity to work with Sam,” Haley said. “Nick, like Sam, is taken for granted.”

“You mention Nick Offerman and people say ‘I love him – he’s hilarious!’ He can do just about anything,” Haley said. “He comes out of the theater and improvisational comedy, and comedy is just about the hardest thing to do. I’ve found that comic actors can play drama just as well.”

In the end, “I made the film I wanted to make, 100 percent,” he said. “I’m very proud of the performances. I’m not trying to change the world or the world of filmmaking.”

Looking back on his school days at UNCSA, “I remember the intimacy of the place, and being consumed by it – eating, sleeping, and breathing movies,” Haley said. “It’s very sweet when I come back.

I have a good place in my heart for the school and Winston-Salem. I met life-long collaborators there, people I’ve been lucky to have met there.”

“I remember him as a student with a great sense of humor,” Dale Pollock, then the dean of the filmmaking school and currently a faculty member, said. “His student film (Sprinkler) was about scarecrows coming to life and is one of the most popular student films I show in my annual shorts class. I am not at all surprised that he has become a successful filmmaker. I think he’s a great director of actors because of his own personality.”

Filmmaker Richard Clabaugh, who taught full time at the School of Filmmaking from 1999 to 2008 (and has occasionally been engaged a substitute since) remembers Haley well and particularly Givens during their student days. “[Rob] was very noticeably gifted and capable,” Clabaugh said. “A good man, and he has a great aesthetic sense. I really think the world of him – both of them, actually – and I’m super happy they’re enjoying success, because they richly deserve it.”

The Hero opens Friday, June 30 at Aperture Cinema. To view Mark Burger’s review of the film, visit burgervideo.com. !

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Eclectic soul-pop-gospel group pays tribute to their Robeson County roots

BY JOHN ADAMIAN | @johnradamian

W

hen people talk about the melting-pot culture of America, it’s usually a cute way of signaling that something has a pleasant mix or a curious combination of components. But Dark Water Rising, a band originally from Robeson County in southeastern North Carolina, really do embody a kind of unpredictable organic American eclecticism, an out-of-many-comes-one vibe. If the melting-pot metaphor suggests everything getting boiled together, that doesn’t mean there won’t be odd chunks or unexpected flavors that poke out from the broth.

Dark Water Rising, which is now out of Chapel Hill, was formed in 2008 and at that time all of the original six members had been raised as part of either the Lumbee or the Tuscarora peoples in eastern North Carolina. However, there have been a few lineup changes since then. Over the years they’ve created a sound that blends elements of piano balladry, folk, radio pop, Americana, gospel, hip-hop, progressive rock and Broadway. Aaron Locklear, a multi-instrumentalist who plays drums, keyboards and guitars helped found the group.

The way Locklear tells it, the founding band members didn’t have overwhelmingly musical upbringings.

“Three of us went to UNC Chapel Hill together,” Locklear said. “We kind of just got together and started liking the sound that we were shaping out of it.”

But when you start drilling down about the story it becomes clear that the members of Dark Water Rising all had a strong musical foundation in the church.

“Growing up in Robeson County, most of us were Southern Baptist, or we grew up raised in the church,” Locklear said. “So everyone was raised singing as part of youth choir. You learn from the church music, because of the beautiful harmonies. We’re very soulful, spiritual people back home, and that has a huge influence.”

Locklear, 36, also played drums in the marching band. His musical upbringing was a typical early-MTV-era mish-mash.

“I listened to everything growing up,” says Locklear. “I was fascinated with Motown. I was fascinated with pop music that was coming out at the time, Michael Jackson. Hip-hop was just getting its foot in the door at that time.”

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Dark Water Rising, a band from Chapel Hill with roots in Robeson County, play Muddy Creek.

Traditional Lumbee music wasn’t necessarily part of the band’s formative experience, but they were exposed to the idea that music conveyed and helped preserve a culture that was encroached upon by history and the wider world.

The story of music in the United States is filled with disenfranchised, short-changed, dispossessed and oppressed people who somehow, despite all of their struggles, managed to make songs and sounds that shaped, expanded and ultimately defined what it means to be American. The most obvious and inescapable part of that story relates to African-Americans, both because of the unimaginable weight and horror of slavery and its legacy, and also because of the monumental African-American influence on the foundations and continued blossoming of American music such as, blues, jazz, gospel, rock and hip-hop.

Native Americans, and the First People of Canada, have transformed the popular music of North America, but the effect has probably been slightly more quiet and under-the-radar. A new documentary film, Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World, celebrates the often-unheralded role that Native musicians have had.

Among those spotlighted in the film are artists like Robbie Robertson, Charley Patton and Jimi Hendrix (who was part Cherokee). Also included is North Carolina’s own legend Link Wray.

Robeson County and the Lumbees have their own musical legacies connecting to the wider culture. Willie French Lowery, a Lumbee musical icon, started a band called Lumbee, whose records are highly collectible. Lowery also had a blues-boogie rock band called Plant & See, which released

a record in 1969 and that record was rereleased by the excellent North Carolina label, Paradise of Bachelors. Lowery died in 2012, the same year the album was finally re-issued.

Locklear says that Lowery and people like him helped create a sense of continuity and tradition.

“He was someone we grew up with, someone we got to play with,” Locklear said of Lowery. “There is a lot of stuff that is taught and passed down, and you have people that make sure it can be learned.”

Dark Water Rising, like some of Lowery’s music before them, isn’t all focused on Lumbee identity, and it’s not traditional music, per se, though the band’s singer Charly Lowry does play a hand drum at times during the set. So, many listeners expecting a folkloric experience that aims to recreate musical practices of the distant past should look elsewhere.

“We’re more of a rock-n-roll, soul band, but there are two or three songs where we do showcase part of the culture and where we’re from,” Locklear said.

Some listeners seem to feel that the band member’s connection to Native culture requires that they play or look a certain way.

“Once people find out that you are Native or have members that are Native, they tend to expect a sound,” Locklear said.

“It gets kind of funny when you’re in that boat.”

The band has played up and down the East Coast, into Canada, which has a vibrant First Nations music culture, and out to the West Coast as well, connecting with many contemporary Native music groups along the way.

Dark Water Rising does reflect a living culture, one that interacts with trends at large. The band covers Brandi Carlile and the Alabama Shakes in their sets. They also do a Heart medley to showcase the singing talents of Lowry and vocalist/guitarist Emily Musolino.

Depending on the song, Dark Water Rising can bring to mind 4 Non Blondes or Alicia Keys or the music from Jesus Christ Superstar, with energetic and strongvoiced singing coupled with a mix of folky and rock touches. The mix of quieter musical settings and Lowery’s powerhouse singing, with R&B melismas and dramatic flourishes, all of it makes for unexpected stylistic swerves.

The band is in the process of working on a new record, one that Locklear says will probably be slightly “more aggressive” and more rocking, to reflect the three-guitar attack of the current lineup.

Locklear said the band’s eclecticism is a function of their origins.

“When we began, we didn’t have people in the band at the time that were trained musicians, so everything you learn is something new,” Locklear said. “If there’s something we like, we just kind of go with it.” !

JOHN ADAMIAN lives in Winston-Salem, and his writing has appeared in Wired, The Believer, Relix, Arthur, Modern Farmer, the Hartford Courant and numerous other publications.

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Classic Journey Live presents ultimate Journey experience Take a ride with Journey as they rise from their San Francisco roots to superstardom and the achievement of unbelievable fame! “Classic Journey Live” will present the most authentic, accurate and impressive Journey experience currently on tour, at the High Point Theatre, Friday and Saturday, July 14 and 15, at 8:00 pm.

Classic Journey Live is a tribute unlike any other. The story begins with Gregg Rolie and legendary front-man Steve Perry together on stage, performing the early hits, just as you remember them. It continues as the band transforms with Jonathan Cain and his trademark red grand piano, playing some of the biggest hits in rock history – Any Way You Want It, Line of Fire, Who’s Crying Now, Faithfully and Don’t Stop Believin’. Every song is familiar and every song is timeless, high-octane rock and roll.

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clothes, hairstyles, lights, musical gear, stage, vocals and, all the sounds that are Journey, combine to create a living tribute to one of rock’s greatest bands. Video excerpts, interviews, and performances from the members of Journey themselves make this a concert not to be forgotten.

Thanks to classic rock radio, parents’ vinyl collections and television shows like Glee, Classic Journey Live will appeal to a younger audience as well as the group’s original fans, leaving even the most venerable fan feeling satisfied – the same feelings as the first time of experiencing a true Journey concert.

“Classic Journey Live is the ultimate concert experience,” says High Point Theatre Director David Briggs. “The audience can expect classic feel-good music, songs that make you sing along. The light show, story line and multi-media component make for a performance you do not want to miss!”

Tickets are $20-$25, available at the box office by calling (336) 887-3001 and online at www.highpointtheatre.com. !

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Bay’s latest bray: A Knight to forget

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s a filmmaker, Michael Bay has never seemed particularly interested in coherency or linear thinking or anything else that carries an idea from Point A to Point B. With that in mind, here’s my own stream-ofconsciousness look at Bay’s latest bray, Transformers: The Last Knight.

At 7 hours 15 minutes, the fifth film in the robotic series surpasses the 4-hour-8-minute Gettysburg as the longest theatrical feature ever made. Keep in mind that I did not have a watch or cell phone on me during the screening, so my estimate of the running time might be slightly off, with

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a margin of error of plus or minus 5 hours. But it certainly felt that long.

If nothing else, T5 is the first movie in the franchise that could be described as educational. For starters, it’s ascertained that not only did King Arthur and Camelot exist, but Arthur and his Round Table companions all had Transformer knights watching their backs. (The recent King Arthur: Legend of the Sword failed to mention this, which is probably why it bombed.) In addition, the Transformers were responsible for the tide turning in favor of the Allies during World War II; they were responsible for the mystery surrounding Stonehenge; and they were responsible for the 2016 presidential election being hacked (or was that the Russians? I forget).

Mark Wahlberg returns for his second appearance as Cade Yeager, the Transformers’ BFF. Here, Cade’s the one who best embodies the spirit of King Arthur and thus is chosen to save all of humanity. Back in 2012, Wahlberg stated that 9/11 wouldn’t have happened had he been on one of the hijacked airplanes. “If I was on that plane with my kids, it wouldn’t have went down like it did,” he told Men’s Journal. “There would have been a lot of blood in that first-class cabin and then me saying, ‘OK, we’re going to land somewhere safely, don’t worry.’” While most Americans were offended by Wahlberg’s imbecilic statement, Bay apparently gurgled and cooed over such a shining display of machismo — hence, we now have Dirk Diggler as The Chosen One. The latest distinguished actor to opt to slum in this series for the sake of a gargantuan payday is Anthony

Hopkins. Unlike, say, past players Frances McDormand and John Malkovich, he does not seem embarrassed by his appearance. Then again, Hopkins already has a long tradition of swooping down on paychecks like a hawk targeting a bunny rabbit — see, for instance, Alexander, Bad Company and that daft werewolf movie with Benicio Del Toro.

One scene features a pair of bickering Transformers voiced by John Goodman and Steve Buscemi. With John Turturro also appearing in the film, it’s safe to say this is the reunion movie that The Big Lebowski devotees were eagerly awaiting. Fans of Walter and Donny, be sure to thank Michael Bay in your prayers tonight.

Speaking of Turturro, he gets off one amusing quip wherein he states than an ancient book was probably made out of “goat scrotum or something.” This made me realize that every major Hollywood movie should work the term “goat scrotum” into its script. In fact, I believe that if La La Land had showcased a song called “City of Goat Scrotums,” it would not have lost the Best Picture Oscar to Moonlight.

Although he does go rogue for a stretch, Transformer leader Optimus Prime (voiced, as always, by Peter Cullen) is otherwise the same boring blowhard he’s always been in this series. He’s such the stodgy dullard that one can’t help but wonder if, when the other Transformers throw a party, they “conveniently” forget to send him an invitation. Honestly, this guy could suck the life out of one of Caligula’s Roman orgies.

There’s a Decepticon in this movie called Mohawk and he sports an actual metallic Mohawk. Nuff said. !

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BY IAN MCDOWELL

t Guilford College, the walking dead have been feasting on students who don’t cooperate to defend themselves. This is not a game or a Halloween zombie walk, the blood-splattered mayhem is a serious academic exercise requiring problemsolving, critical thinking and trust.

Professor Heather Richardson Hayton, Ph. D. of English and director of the Guilford Honors Program, created the experiment, which is the basis of her chapter in the book Monsters in the Classroom: Essays on Teaching What Scares Us, co-edited by herself, Adam Golub and published last April by McFarland Press.

Hayton is nothing like the straw-person, pop culture scholar mocked by bubbasphere pundits who no more understand academia than they do Shakespeare.

Her infectious enthusiasm for not only zombies but all manifestations of the monstrous comes from a passion for rigorous intellectual inquiry.

“Monsters are important symbols of cultural anxieties and fears,” she said, “and Monsters in the Classroom is a serious book. I personally am committed to reminding politicians and parents that the liberal arts, and studying the humanities, matter. So I don’t want anyone to think my classes, however silly the topic may seem, aren’t significant inquiries into the types of questions that have challenged thinkers for thousands of years: what does it mean to be human, to live in a community, to be an individual, to make stories/fictions/lies so we can tell truths that cannot be named otherwise.”

The most recent zombie exercise at Guilford was last fall with a group of first-year Honors Program students in a course entitled, “Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse.” Hayton said for the simulation, several Guilford College alumni came back to be zombies, “continuing a lovely tradition.”

The zombies attacked at 10 p.m. Their intended freshman victims were forced to take sanctuary in a safe house (in a classroom on the second floor of King Hall) and plan their survival strategy.

“They were told there would be several ‘tests’ sprung on them throughout the night and they would be graded on their teamwork, problem-solving skills, and whether they survived until morning without getting a bloody handprint from a zombie,” Hayton said. “I acted as game master and moved back and forth be-

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Dr Hayton (Middle Left) with Ian Weisenberg Ian St Amour (Left), Suzanne Farmer (Right), & Guilford Public Safety Officer John Mathews (Middle Right) in the Fall 2016 simulation. tween the students and the alumni-zombies, along with an off-duty public safety officer [John Matthews], and an Office of Student Life colleague [Steve Moran].

Hayton said the blood used was a sticky mixture of chocolate syrup and food dye that “took forever to clean up after it was all over.”

If one of the first-year students was tagged with the “blood,” Hayton said, they lost all the points in the assignment, which was an incentive to keep them invested in the game and take it seriously.

Hayton said she did not need to worry about the students, unlike her earlier experiment described in the book, in which some sacrificed others to escape the undead. “These Honors students were over-achievers,” Hayton said. “I was quite surprised to find them immediately working together to draw a schematic of the building and surrounding area on the whiteboard, breaking into smaller teams, and turning off the lights and keeping voices low so as not to attract the zombies.”

Hayton said at midnight, an alumnus reprised his role as pizza-delivery-guy and was “attacked” by the zombies in a test for the students: they had to liberate the hot pizzas for their hungry group by figuring out how to work together to distract enough zombies below, get the pizzas and get back to the safe house.

Inevitably, the students were trapped and stared death in the bloody teeth-

gnashing face.

“We then did some processing, zombies and students together, as part of the final moments of the simulation, with hot donuts and coffee, and shared what worked and didn’t in each group,” Hayton said.

She said they found that both the zombies and students had problems pulling back from the simulation when adrenaline was involved.

“We continued the reflections over the next week as we watched Romero’s classic Night of the Living Dead, and talked about the limits of community,” Hayton said. “We noted how endorphins and stress strain the ethics we’ve chosen to live by and how important inclusive communication is. We returned later in the semester to the lessons learned that night as we talked about real-world conflicts within and beyond our own community.”

For Hayton and her students, zombies became real that night and the class had more appreciation for the power of a monster story.

“We learned that like most other monster narratives, the really interesting part is what the humans do to survive,” Hayton said. “What they lose individually and what they gain together.”

It may sound fun, but this kind of teaching is incredibly difficult. Hayton said she worked for months beforehand through all of the details, possible scenarios, potential snafus and etc.

“I had to have trust that whatever hap-

pened that night we would be prepared to handle and to use as a teaching moment for the rest of the semester,” Hayton said.

“Students also had to trust one another and me--so we were all challenged [as a learning community] by the simulation.”

Hayton said the book Monsters in the Classroom came out of discussions Golub and she had about the cultural power of monsters and monster stories, as well as their sharing of teaching strategies as colleagues. She said they traveled with one of the other contributors for the book to Lisbon, Portugal to present their research at a conference on monster studies, and that had really solidified a lot of their thinking to begin the project.

“We knew we wanted to focus on teaching monsters,” Hayton said. “On how monsters let us engage with important cultural, philosophical, political, religious, literary, rhetorical insights in a way that is enduring, yet timely.”

In email, Golub wrote nothing but praise for Hayton, saying that it was a thrill to work with her and that she is a “terrific teacher, a sharp editor and an accomplished scholar.”

“With my history background and her literature background,” he wrote. “We worked together to create an interdisciplinary collection of essays that would be useful for teachers but also accessible to anyone who is interested in reading about the meaning of monsters in our society.”

Charleston College professor W. Scott Poole, author of Monsters in America: Our

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and the Haunting, wrote in an email that

he was similarly effusive about Monsters in the Classroom, for which he says he felt honored to write the introduction.

“Over the past decade, a fairly large number of college courses have sprung up premised on the importance of monster tales and horror fictions in American popular culture,” he wrote. “Heather, and her partner on the project Adam Golub, recognized that the popularity of such courses too often have a ‘Gee whiz, aren’t vampires and zombies cool’ quality to them. Monsters in the Classroom will help scholars ground such courses in traditional disciplines while suggesting new methods of student learning provided by our cultural love affair with the monster.”

Hayton describes her own background as that of a first-generation college student who originally intended to become a lawyer. California-born, she started her university education in the University of Southern California Honors Program before transferring to University of California Davis. Hayton’s dissertation was on how medieval authors used love language, and the discourses of desire, to talk about political subjectivity. In her reading she said, “talking about the capricious actions of a haughty beloved was a way to talk about what it felt like to serve a selfish political ruler.”

“Then I went to Pennsylvania State University for my Ph. D. in comparative literature,” Hayton said. “I am a medievalist by training, so I had plenty of monster stories ranging from the great epics to Dante’s Inferno, to Beowulf, to Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur. In fact, I used to read a lot of them to my small children as bedtime stories. Not sure how smart that was, but both loved hearing and reading those monster stories.”

Having read heavily in Arthurian romances as background for my first novel, I’d like to talk medieval lit with Hayton, but suspect my readers want us to get back to zombies. She makes me reconsider the thesis of an article in progress, when I say the American zombie has gone from a metaphor for slavery and capitalism to a guilt-free headshot target in a pop culture shooting gallery.

“I’m going to disagree, slightly,” she said. “While I do agree that the zombie as a monster is an ethical intervention into first-person shooter games (would you kill your mother if she were a zombie? your girlfriend? your cat?), I think zombies are something more than that.”

Hayton said that in Romero’s “ghouls” (in the original Night of the Living Dead, the “z-word” is never used) were “certainly multivalent symbols of some of the chaos of the late 1960s and later became symbols of mass consumption, capitalism

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and racial tensions.”

Hayton said some of the most interesting zombie narratives in the last decade have dealt with economic tensions and anxieties over resources as humans live longer or have biomedical promises of longevity for some.

“For example, there is a fantastic indie mockumentary called American Zombie that deals with worker’s rights, exploitation of undocumented persons, and hipster culture all within a zombie narrative,” she said. “Zombie in a Penguin Suit is a short movie that is deeply troubling look at American suburbia using zombies as a lens. Max Brooks’ novel World War Z can also be read as a fantastic political and philosophical examination of the failure of our military industrial complex and our political mindset when challenged by a monster that cannot be extinguished without radically changing everything about our society and letting go of the ‘American dream.’”

Hayton said that for her, zombies are still “a symbol of enslavement to a false but destructive ideal, of unfair labor practices, of capitalist greed and economic disparity.”

She points out that even the most recent T.V. zombies, in shows such as, iZombie and Santa Clarita Diet, take on similar cultural issues. Hayton said iZombie is an elaborate metaphor for depression, self-loathing, body dysmorphia and social pressures on millennials who feel trapped.

She said Santa Clarita Diet does the same thing with suburban moms.

“But both shows are about women finding their own voice and letting go of cultural indoctrination over who they should become,” Hayton said. “How they should look, what it means to perform in society and the cost of ‘normal.’”

Furthermore, she points out that, even in first-person shooter games, the walking dead can be more than guilt-free targets.

“I once pitched a video game that would populate the game with zombies who had faces from your personal Facebook or social mediascape,” Hayton said.

“You’d turn a corner and suddenly have to shoot your way through a zombie horde that included your brother, your neighbor, your best friend from high school, or your grandmother. I think it would be way too dark to play for very long!”

As for Hayton’s favorite monster, she said she is really into Medusa at the moment.

“I love the monster who refuses to hide and whose very stare can destroy men,” Hayton said. “I think she’s a great monster/hero for our own cultural moment because she resists and turns an objectifying gaze back on those who try to consume her.” !

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High Point University’s president pledges to raise millions for additional downtown development When the High Point City Council approved the proposal for a downtown baseball stadium, Dr. Nido Qubein doubted the project alone would create the desired economic impact for the city.

Eva Ellenburg Like he’s done for his entire career, the Contributor High Point University president decided to do something about it—something big. He pledged to raise $38 million for additional developments around the stadium like a children’s museum, event center, educational cinema and a park.

“I recommended that we create not only a baseball stadium facility but rather that we create a destination center,” Qubein said. “A destination center meant that not only will you have people come 70 days a year to see baseball—and perhaps an equal number of days to watch other things at the stadium like concerts, etcetera—but rather we can create something that has a 365-day appeal.”

In April, High Point City Council agreed to fund the construction of a 5,000- to 7,500-seat multipurpose stadium on a site of land bordered by North Elm Street, Gatewood Avenue, North Lindsay Street and West English Road—about 11.5 acres valued at $15 million. It will be home to a minor league baseball team and will provide a venue for concerts and other events.

During the High Point Convention and Visitors Bureau annual meeting on May 17, Qubein announced his intention raise the money from private donors by Sept.

15 for the additional projects. The City of High Point will own these developments, which will be constructed near the future stadium. The funds will also cover Qubein’s efforts in leading the stadium’s naming rights and team acquisition.

“Besides just creating energy and a sense of pride, we wanted something that will create jobs—something that will have an improved economic impact on the whole area,” Qubein said.

Qubein said he envisions the event center as a venue for state association conferences and community events that host between 500 and 1,200 people. He wants the children’s museum to be an

interactive, scientific experience with an educational, single-screen cinema adjacent to it. A small park with a playground would complete his vision of the developments near the stadium.

High Point is considered one of the furniture capitals of the world, but since the 1990s its textile-based economy has suffered due to foreign competition.

Although the industry and the bi-annual furniture market still have a strong presence in High Point, its downtown area— full of mostly showrooms only used for the furniture market—has been stagnant in comparison to the growing northern part of the city.

High Point City Manager Greg Demko said the tax base in the core city has been decreasing since 2008, so these developments are intended to reverse that trend.

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Dr. Nido Qubein on stage at the annual CVB meeting announcing his pledge to raise millions of dollars for community developments in downtown High Point.

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He said feasibility studies were conducted to ensure the potential success for these projects.

Demko said the creation of over 750 fulltime jobs is projected in the core city—near lower-income areas—over the next decade after the developments are complete. The estimated timeline for the projects is three to five years.

Taxes will not be raised to build the stadium. The debt from the land purchase and construction will be repaid through private revenue generated by the developments, as well as an increased tax base from the future properties and businesses in the area.

Demko said the stadium is a catalyst project to stimulate growth around the area in the forms of apartments, hotels, restaurants and bars. He said Qubein’s contribution will provide more catalysts for economic growth and increase the foot traffic projected to occur in the downtown area.

“When people are starting to complain about traffic versus that it’s a dead downtown, that’s when we’ll know we’re succeeding,” Demko said.

Qubein said the group of donors for the projects will only include about five to 10 philanthropists from High Point. He said he has already secured several donations, but the names of these people and their contributions will be made public at a later date.

Qubein himself and HPU will be leaders in contributing to the monetary goal as well.

Neither Qubein nor the philanthropic group have personal financial stakes in the project. He said he chose to take on the task because of his love for the city and his belief in its potential.

“High Point is resilient in many ways—it has a citizenry that is engaged in many, many things, it has philanthropic spirit that’s second-to-none, and of course it has some other special assets like the furniture market, which is international, and High Point University, which has been a thriving institution,” Qubein said.

Demko said he thinks the entrepreneurial strategy that Qubein used with HPU’s expansion should be employed with the development of High Point’s downtown.

“If you look at the growth and experience of High Point University that Dr. Qubein has built in over the last decade,” Demko said, “Just mirroring that in downtown High Point and using that vision and that image and that investment and that energy will be a game changer.”

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“If there was any doubt in my mind about if the stadium was going to be enough to create what we want to in our downtown, then all that was put to rest with all the other things that he added,” Mabe said.

Qubein said he has received positive responses from many High Point residents regarding the “destination center,” but he knows some don’t think it will not guarantee a better economy. However, a guarantee is not his goal.

“When people say, ‘Well I just don’t think a stadium will work’—well gosh, you know, it may not work forever,” Qubein said. “If you want a guarantee for 100 years, I’m not sure who can give you such a guarantee. So the question for me is not whether or not something is absolute, but whether or not something is good.”

Mabe said he does not agree with criticism he has heard about these projects—he thinks an improved downtown will attract millennials and increase the tax base in the downtown area, particularly regarding the property taxes.

“Now we really do have to address this just so the property values won’t continue to decline in that part of High Point,” Mabe said. “All of us here that are paying property taxes that are living in places where people want to live, we have to make up for that property tax.”

Qubein said his optimism regarding the project should not be mistaken for naivety, but rather a point of view based on reason and a belief that the city of High Point has greater economic potential.

Qubein does not think the city should try to model itself after other cities like Greensboro and Winston-Salem, but he believes it should capitalize on its own unique strengths.

“If we just focus all of our energies to create a more vibrant environment for young people and for our children for the future, then I think we can achieve something remarkable,” Qubein said. “High Point is capable of becoming the best High Point it can be without necessarily imitating any other location.”

As someone with resources to give, Qubein said he feels grateful that he can give back to the community in which he raised his four children and built up his career.

“I don’t think it’s just a responsibility—I think it’s a blessing,” Qubein said. “I think it’s a privilege, to be in a position to give of one’s time, one’s money, one’s leadership, one’s experience, one’s connections.” !

EVA ELLENBURG is a rising sophomore at UNC-Chapel with a double major in journalism and political science.

She writes for the Daily Tar Heel in Chapel Hill during the school year and is working as an intern for the summer at Yes! Weekly.

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[HOROSCOPES]

[CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Use extreme caution when dealing with any situation that is potentially volatile. Do not use force to accomplish your means now or it will be used against you. Be wary of parking places that might change character after dark. The energy in your field is best used in clean and honest competition, whether with yourself or someone else.

[LEO (July 23 to August 22) It’s important that you be aware that your thinking is not as objective as you believe. Listen when others tell you their attitudes and opinions. You do not have to adopt them, but don’t reject what they say out of hand.

Try to think carefully before assuming you are the only one who knows the right answers.

[VIRGO (August 23 to September 22) You want answers and you may insist on having them right now, in spite of the fact that you are irritating the person who has the answer. Alternatively, you may be brooding over a child or a lover. Be aware that aspects are causing this to happen and try to let go. You know that obsessive thinking wastes your time and energy.

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[LIBRA (September 23 to October 22) You may be feeling at odds with yourself or others in your daily life. Don’t rush yourself into action here. Perhaps it is better if you discuss this issue with a trusted person.

You may need an alternative perspective.

Remain conservative with your money.

You are tempted to overspend.

[SCORPIO (October 23 to November 21) You could become embroiled in a battle of wills over who is right. In order to steer clear of a war, remain aware that the subject matter is merely what you think, not who you are. You have the controlling word in any battle. Use it ethically and don’t blow away your opponent. Drive and handle tools carefully.

[SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to December 21) This is not your best week.

There is interference in timing and forward motion that that you cannot control.

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This is a sample of Pluto’s power in your sign. Concentrate on the issues at hand and do not set up a battleground over

egos that no one will win. You have a hot topic there. It may be more workable later when you are less identified with what you think.

[AQUARIUS (January 20 to February 18) You may feel trapped by a variety of circumstances over which you have no control. At times like these, we can only move in baby steps. You are not at fault here. Avoid the blame game, even if you are only talking to yourself. How were you supposed to know how things would develop?

[PISCES (February 19 to March 20) It is possible that you are not feeling well this week. You may be subject to allergy symptoms that keep you subdued. Your self-talk is likely to be on the dark side and mainly due to your fears for the future. The Inner Critic is not in touch with the whole truth even though it feels real enough to you. It mainly has a loud voice which you can choose to ignore.

[ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Tension is high. The Powers that Be in your career life are definitely in charge. Progress can be made only through persuasion and even that may not help. Don’t succumb to anger or you will have lost your case entirely. You could be tempted to displace your anger onto others. You know that is not fair or productive. Peel yourself off the wall and wait for a better moment.

[TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) During this period you may be struggling with two images of relatedness. One is the nurturing, mothering type and the other is more sexual and/or intellectual. This conflict might be symbolized by home/ family versus partners/lovers. Somehow it is a challenge for humans to be conscious of both nurture and sexuality. Set aside decisions on this until you find a “right” solution.

[GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) Your mind is restless and easily bored this week, so find a variety of interesting things for entertainment. You are feeling independent and you may want more alone time than is the norm. Sometimes we just need to see different surroundings. If you have these symptoms, try a brief weekend trip.

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[THE ADVICE GODDESS] love • sex • dating • marriage • questions

SPEAKING ILL OF THE DUD

I have a close friend whose relationships always end badly. The new guy she’s dating has a reputation as a user. My friend’s Amy Alkon very successful, and I believe he’s dating her for her business Advice contacts. I need to Goddess be honest with her about this. How should I do that — considering she falls in love hard and fast? — Caring Amiga People will insist that they absolutely want you to be honest with them when they’re doing anything stupid — and then immediately reward you for it by exiling you from Western society to live and herd goats with a Bedouin family.

Yes, even well-intentioned honesty is often counterproductive. This might be hard for you to swallow, considering how warning your friend about this guy probably seems like warning her that she’s about to be hit by a bus. And sure, if that were the case, upon your “YO! WATCH OUT!” she’d whirl around and leap out of the way — not stand her ground and snap: “You dunno what you’re talking about. Buses love me!”

Though it’s hard to deny the existence of a 24-ton object hurtling toward us, seeing things accurately is not always the first order of the human perceptual system. In fact, evolutionary psycholo-

gist Martie Haselton explains that we seem to have evolved to make the least costly perceptual error in a situation — a subconscious calculation that sometimes leads to our over-perceiving or under-perceiving risks or opportunities.

For example, in the physical risk domain, we are predisposed to over-perceive that stick in the rustling leaves as a snake because it’s far more costly to die from a snake bite than to “die” of embarrassment when our peeps mock us for jumping out of our skin at a sinister-looking twig.

In relationships, social psychologist Garth Fletcher and his colleagues find that it’s sometimes in our interest to err on the side of “positivity” — the rosy view — over “accuracy.” (Love is blind versus love gets Lasik!) Whether positivity or accuracy is active is context-dependent — meaning determined by our situation.

So, for example, when you’re in no rush to settle down, positivity vision prevails.

Positive illusions are “associated with greater relationship satisfaction and lower rates of dissolution.” Other times, “the need to make accurate, unbiased judgments becomes critical,” like when a little voice inside you is yelling “It’s baby o’clock!” and you’ll need a guy who’ll stick around and “dad.”

Unfortunately, your even hinting that this guy may have ulterior motives is likely to make your friend snarlingly defensive — which is to say she may end up throwing somebody out of her life, and it probably won’t be him. Of course, it’s possible that you’re wrong about the guy. Regardless, per the Fletcher team’s finding, your friend’s being able to see

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anything beyond how dreamypants he is may be driven by context — like when maintaining the rosy view would prove fatal to her achieving some essential goal. At that point, she might start noticing that their threesomes invariably involve the head of HR — and that if she asked him “Baby, what’s your favorite position?” his answer would be “vice president!”

MUTE EMERGENCY

I’m a single guy, and I just never know how to start conversations with girls. I have a sense of humor, but I’m bad at coming up with funny lines on the fly.

I’ve thought of using a “line,” but if I were a girl, hearing one would just make me annoyed. Do you have any advice on good conversation starters? — Speechless There’s a reason the line from that chick flick is “You had me at hello” and not “You had me at ‘Those jugs yours?’”

Granted, it’s better if you can be funny when hitting on girls. Evolutionary psychologist Geoffrey Miller believes “humor production ability” is a “hard-to-fake” sign of intelligence in a potential partner.

Research by Miller and others suggests he’s right — finding correlations between humor and “verbal creativity” and intelligence. But note “hard-to-fake.” Trying to be funny when you aren’t all that funny is about as successful a tactic as trying to remove someone’s appendix when you aren’t really a doctor.

However, even if you aren’t naturally funny, what you can be is genuine. To do this, just say something — perhaps about something in the environment.

Ask about that book she’s carrying or whether she’s survived the vegan Reuben. Maybe comment on the attire of the two armed men running out of the place with a bag of money. Just saying something is basically like opening a tiny door to see whether anything’s behind it. If a woman finds you attractive, she’ll pick up and respond — and probably not by announcing that if you were the last man on earth, she’d develop a sexual attraction to trees. !

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